This was partly due to the difference between African Americans and whites. They watched white people go to church with envy. At one point it was mentioned that blacks would wait until the whites' church session ended so they could benefit from the priest's preaching. The priest would tell them that if they behaved and were good on earth, they would be sent to heaven. The slaves are all excited because they have a chance of being sent to “white heaven” (Endore 92). However, the way the priest explains it is that God did not judge by skin color, but by how a person acted. This in itself is a political statement because it shows that the differences between races are man-made and not how man was created. In theory, this flies in the face of how many people in the 1800s and even the 1930s considered